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Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:41:24 -0500
From: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Amod Bodas <Amod.Bodas@...eros.com>,
Senthilkumar Balasubramanian
<Senthilkumar.Balasubramanian@...eros.com>,
Sree Durbha <Sree.Durbha@...eros.com>,
Deepak Dhamdhere <Deepak.Dhamdhere@...eros.com>,
Xin Jin <Xin.Jin@...eros.com>
Subject: Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com> wrote:
>> I don't think it's good to advocate a custom driver. They should be able
>> to use stock wpa_supplicant w/ nl80211 and put the extensions in the
>> hardware layer.
>
> Can you elaborate?
>From the wiki:
"The proper approach would be to provide a custom driver_nl80211_android.c
wrapper for the modified wpa_supplicant in Android."
I just don't think it's strictly necessary to ship a modified wpa_s.
Why is Android special when bog standard Linux gets by ok with
driver_nl80211?
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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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